Why Elite Women Struggle with Marriage and Motherhood
They have not been prepared for this
This week, Kerri Christopher explores why many elite women struggle when the household and domestic work, rather than the paid workforce, become their focus.
Why Elite Women Struggle with Marriage and Motherhood
Kerri Christopher
A woman who used to be a successful stockbroker, well-dressed and well-respected, now looks around while the baby cries and discovers that no one has clean socks and she hasn’t had time to wash her hair in four days. She wonders what happened to that woman who used to be so competent, and she can resent this new life because it makes her feel like she’s disappeared—or worse, been erased. She feels guilty for feeling this way, precisely because she doesn’t subscribe to the “Midas Mindset.” She knows that relationships are a source of deep fulfilment, but she finds it difficult to believe in the moment, when covered in spit-up and facing a mountain of dirty laundry.
What if the problem is not this woman, who is doing her best? What if her expectations are all wrong?
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From the Archives:
Featured Author Holly Lawford-Smith takes on Katy Perry’s “Woman’s World” song, exploring why it it didn’t please anyone.
It’s a Woman’s World
Holly Lawford-Smith
“Perhaps this is what Perry’s construction workers show us: you can be a construction worker, so long as you’re a hot construction worker. You can have some of the things men have, so long as you keep showing men that you know you’re different and you keep making yourself look different just so everyone’s clear that you two are not really the same type of person under it all. You might both need a hammer, but yours has diamantes, and your lipstick is perfect while you bang the nails in.”